Martin Weller has a new post on the cost of peer review. From the post:
Peer-review is one of the great unseen tasks performed by academics. Most of us do some, for no particular reward, but out of a sense of duty towards the overall quality of research.
Glyn Moody has a related post. Thanks to George Siemens for the link to Weller’s post.
Jeremy Riel has posted slides on the “promise of open education.”
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Tagged e-learning, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open Education, openness
Ethan Watrall has a new post about developing your own personal OpenCourseWare strategy. From the post:
One of the biggest challenges of not being at a university that has an existing OCW infrastructure is that you can’t rely on the strength of said infrastructure to publicise your courses. This means that you are going to have to do a lot of the legwork yourself if you want to get the word out about your OCW materials.
Thanks to Cathy Anderson for the link.
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Tagged e-learning, higher education, ocw, oer, online learning, open content, Open course ware, Open Education
Wikinews has posted an interview with Chiaki Hayashi, Asian Projects Coordinator at Creative Commons. From the interview:
Unfortunately, copyright law of Japan is very strict. That means protecting the rights of copyright, so that means reluctant to support free culture in general. In Japan, copyright law is very strict, but step by step we are changing and also Japanese people are really easy to change so I am quite positive then we can change our minds to support free culture.
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Tagged cc, CC licenses, commons, copy right, copyright, openness, public domain
Glyn Moody has a new post wondering why there has not been an open source company worth a billion dollars. From the post:
Indeed, I would go so far as to say that very few open source startups will ever get anywhere near to $1 billion. Not because they are incompetent, or because open source will “fail” in any sense. But because the economics of open source software – and therefore the business dynamics – are so different from those of traditional software that it simply won’t be possible in most markets.
Commentary available from Slashdot.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, Internet, open source, openness
Rebecca Fernandez has a new post about building an authentic community. From the post:
Although I’ve said much about creating communities, it’s important to realize that—without members—a user agreement, some technology, and a handful of moderators can only ever be a potential community.
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Tagged commons, e-learning, Internet, online learning, openness
Heather Ford points to a video noted by several others discussing how some industries survive without copyright protection.
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“TVOL” has a new post noting that education publisher Pearson is paying Montgomery County for its curriculum. From the post:
The downstream effects of the deal are detrimental to teaching and learning in Montgomery County, and potentially to other school districts if Pearson’s marketing efforts are successful. Pearson will be the sole and exclusive owner of all the rights to the curriculum and teacher professional development materials.
David Wiley also comments on the issue.
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Tagged commons, copy right, copyright, K-12, oer, open content, Open Education, openness
The Mozilla Foundation is announcing the first annual Mozilla Drumbeat festival. The festival will be held Nov. 4-6 in Barcelona. Interestingly, the festival will take place right after Open Education Conference 2010.
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Jim Groom has a new post reacting to recent discussion surrounding the term “Edupunk.” From the post:
Part of the beauty of a term or idea like EDUPUNK is that it’s protean, and you can’t control its meaning and interpretation—and I think that’s important and necessary. At the same time, I think a personal intervention is in order (at least for my own head) because an EDUPUNK that devastates public education in service to the unregulated promise of free markets and capital is possibly the worst vision one can imagine.
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Tagged e-learning, online learning, open accreditation, Open Education, open learning, openness
